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HP’s global citizenship performance extends beyond our policies and processes to include the actions of our employees. We encourage employees to volunteer their time and donate money and HP products to benefit good causes. Supporting community organizations improves morale and helps employees develop new skills. It also increases awareness of the HP brand and strengthens our relationships with local communities and other stakeholders.
Approach
In many countries, local HP offices inform employees about opportunities to make donations and volunteer their time. We often encourage employees to choose projects that complement their professional skills in order to bring the most benefit to organizations.
Our largest employee giving and volunteerism programs are in the United States. HP offers one-to-one cash matching for employee gifts to qualified nonprofit organizations, up to $1,000 per employee per fiscal year. U.S. employees can also donate HP technology to qualified charitable organizations or schools. Employees contribute 25 percent of the list price up to $5,000, and HP contributes the remaining 75 percent.
When feasible, we link employee volunteering to our social investment programs, particularly those focused on education. Employees based in the United States and Canada may volunteer up to four hours per month on company time, at their manager’s discretion. In other countries, programs vary according to local labor laws.
We encourage employees to be involved in the community even after they retire from HP. HP Retiree Clubs—nine in the United States and nine in other countries—regularly organize local volunteering. HP currently has 60,000 retirees, and we are now welcoming 19,000 EDS retirees to the program. We recognize outstanding retiree volunteers through our Retiree Volunteers of the Year award program.
In 2008, we launched an online tool for volunteer postings, matching and reporting. This highlights HP’s volunteer policies, puts employees and retirees in touch with volunteerism opportunities, and enables them to connect with others with similar volunteer interests. Employees and retirees can also use the tool to report volunteering time and the value of their donations. The tool is currently available in Canada, Costa Rica, India, Puerto Rico and the United States. This has enabled us to formally capture employee giving and volunteerism data outside the United States for the first time.
EDS, acquired by HP in 2008, brings a long history of employee giving and volunteerism. In 2007, EDS employees spent about 135,000 hours volunteering on projects ranging from the Junior Achievement young enterprise program to the Special Olympics sports organization for young people with disabilities. EDS’s giving and volunteerism programs, which share our focus on supporting education through technology, will be integrated into HP’s programs during 2009 and included in our next Global Citizenship Report. For more information, read EDS’s 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report.
In 2008, our employees responded to disasters around the world.
Employees contributed $903,000 to support relief efforts following the earthquake in Sichuan, China, which was matched with a $1,350,000 donation from the HP Company Foundation. We donated an additional $450,000 worth of IT equipment to help build 20 computer classrooms for local schools in affected communities and $50,000 worth of equipment to the Red Cross Society of China. Employees also helped to install HP technology in the computer classrooms.
Employees contributed $109,500 to support the victims of Hurricane Ike, which affected Louisiana, Texas and the Midwest United States. This was matched with a $109,500 donation from the HP Company Foundation. The donations supported the efforts of relief organizations including the American Red Cross, the Houston Food Bank and The Texas Disaster Relief Fund. HP attorneys also provided pro bono legal services at Disaster Recovery Centers in Houston and during the San Diego wildfires, earning them the San Diego Legal Aid Society's Pro Bono Outstanding Service Award.
We currently report employee volunteerism and contributions data from U.S. employees.
Employee giving in the United States, 2005-2008
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2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
| Employees participating in our U.S. Employee Giving Program |
10,300 |
7,700 |
5,700 |
6,700 |
| Value of cash and products donated including HP matched funds [million $U.S
] |
$16.9 |
$12.6 |
$13.4 |
$12.8 |
Volunteerism and giving examples
Global. Employees from 31 offices in 14 countries spent time in employee-organized volunteer activities to commemorate Earth Day and World Environment Day. Activities ranged from green fairs to cycle-to-work activities. After the events, additional Employee Sustainability Networks were founded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. These networks are made up of volunteers who organize different activities to raise awareness for sustainability issues and who aim to make their HP office sites more sustainable.
Costa Rica. HP volunteers are partnering with the EARTH University, an international university specializing in environmental sciences, to reforest a 25-acre area in Costa Rica. In 2008, 435 HP volunteers planted 1,800 trees—a strong start toward the project goal to plant 6,000 trees over three years. The project will create a mixed forest that will capture more than 360 tonnes of CO2 over 25 years.
Europe. HP collaborates with Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE), which promotes youth enterprise and economic education. Students in JA-YE's Company of the Year program can take part in the HP Responsible Business online competition, which rewards innovative, financially sound business plans with high ethical and environmental standards. In addition, HP selects one JA-YE student company as the winner of the Responsible Business Award.
In 2008, 121 HP employees in 13 countries advised students on how to run a responsible business. Since 2007, HP employees have volunteered more than 600 hours to support the competition in addition to volunteering their time on local JA-YE programs. In 2008, HP reached over 42,000 students with this initiative. In 2009, the competition is expanding into the Americas region. For more information, visit www.responsible-business.org.
India. HEARTS, the employee volunteering initiative at HP Business Process Outsourcing in India, invests in educational and healthcare initiatives in Bangalore and Chennai. In 2008, HEARTS worked with the children's charities Akshara Foundation, Cheshire Homes and Parikrma Humanity Foundation. Activities to support the organizations ranged from fundraising events and clothes collections to tree planting. 3,802 employees volunteered their time in 2008, raising a total of $7,800.
United States. The HP legal department has set a goal for half of its U.S. employees to provide at least 20 hours per year of pro bono services to their local communities. In 2008, 80 employees have volunteered almost 950 hours to support projects ranging from providing legal advice to homeless people in the San Francisco Bay area to running legal clinics for veterans in Houston, Texas.
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